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Nov 16th, 2020, 05:57 AM
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PDFAssist, tool adding context menu to Explorer to split, merge... PDF
I need to split and merge PDF very often, and I haven't found any easy and quick product to do that.
All the applications I've tested are heavy to load, or take several clisk and time to do the job I wanted.
So, I created this little tool yesterday to fit my needs.
PDFAssist is a small application that add to the Windows FileExplorer some menus to do some quick work on PDF files.
The work can be done on single PDF and on multiple PDF at the same time.
This version do on PDF :
- Split the pages of PDF
- Compress (optimize) the PDF
- Merge PDF
- OCR PDF
- Print PDF
- Password Protect PDF
- Password UnProtect PDF

It uses Ghostscript and Poppler to do the work on PDF.
In order to manage multiple select of files within the Explorer, PDFAssist uses the "context-menu-launcher" that can be found at this url
https://github.com/zenden2k/context-menu-launcher
Ghostscript and Poppler are embedded in the ZIP
You will find in the code all the code to do call to Ghostscript, Poppler, etc...
Just run the executable the first time to create the needed registry keys.
As bonus, PDFAssist also creates a registry key to allow the automatic creation a folder with the current date
Enjoy the tool, and if you have comments, or ideas to enhance it, just post them here.
Well, I can't post it here, upload seemes to have a problem, but here is the link with all EXE : https://www.dropbox.com/s/r43bvoyfp7...ssist.zip?dl=1
And here only the sourcesPDFAssist Only src.zip
Thierry
Last edited by Shaggy Hiker; Nov 16th, 2020 at 12:34 PM.
Reason: Removed one link
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Dec 5th, 2020, 05:49 AM
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Re: PDFAssist, tool adding context menu to Explorer to split, merge... PDF
Good job!
Can I translate this tool on ITALIAN language?
Thank you.
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Dec 5th, 2020, 05:52 AM
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Re: PDFAssist, tool adding context menu to Explorer to split, merge... PDF
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Nov 30th, 2021, 11:29 AM
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Re: PDFAssist, tool adding context menu to Explorer to split, merge... PDF
 Originally Posted by Thierry69
I need to split and merge PDF very often, and I haven't found any easy and quick product to do that.
All the applications I've tested are heavy to load, or take several clisk and time to do the job I wanted.
So, I created this little tool yesterday to fit my needs.
PDFAssist is a small application that add to the Windows FileExplorer some menus to do some quick work on PDF files.
The work can be done on single PDF and on multiple PDF at the same time.
This version do on PDF :
- Split the pages of PDF
- Compress (optimize) the PDF
- Merge PDF
- OCR PDF
- Print PDF
- Password Protect PDF
- Password UnProtect PDF
It uses Ghostscript and Poppler to do the work on PDF.
In order to manage multiple select of files within the Explorer, PDFAssist uses the "context-menu-launcher" that can be found at this url
https://github.com/zenden2k/context-menu-launcher
Ghostscript and Poppler are embedded in the ZIP
You will find in the code all the code to do call to Ghostscript, Poppler, etc...
Just run the executable the first time to create the needed registry keys.
As bonus, PDFAssist also creates a registry key to allow the automatic creation a folder with the current date
Enjoy the tool, and if you have comments, or ideas to enhance it, just post them here.
Well, I can't post it here, upload seemes to have a problem, but here is the link with all EXE : https://www.dropbox.com/s/r43bvoyfp7...ssist.zip?dl=1
And here only the sources PDFAssist Only src.zip
Thierry
Hey for some reason I am unable to use this. I have used to for some months. Now on the rightclick Icon it just shows a blank icon. Any idea how to reinstall this?
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Nov 30th, 2021, 12:19 PM
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Re: PDFAssist, tool adding context menu to Explorer to split, merge... PDF
Just reinstall it, maybe some upgrade of windows broke something (not here at least as I use it everyday)
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Dec 5th, 2021, 02:10 AM
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Re: PDFAssist, tool adding context menu to Explorer to split, merge... PDF
 Originally Posted by thierry69
just reinstall it, maybe some upgrade of windows broke something (not here at least as i use it everyday)
how do i reinstall it? It is not available in control panel
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Dec 5th, 2021, 05:48 AM
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Re: PDFAssist, tool adding context menu to Explorer to split, merge... PDF
You have the sources in my thread
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Dec 7th, 2021, 07:56 AM
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Re: PDFAssist, tool adding context menu to Explorer to split, merge... PDF
 Originally Posted by Thierry69
You have the sources in my thread
I am unable to install it. As I click it, nothing happens.
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May 25th, 2023, 09:12 AM
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Re: PDFAssist, tool adding context menu to Explorer to split, merge... PDF
 Originally Posted by Thierry69
I need to split and merge PDF very often, and I haven't found any easy and quick product to do that.
All the applications I've tested are heavy to load, or take several clisk and time to do the job I wanted.
So, I created this little tool yesterday to fit my needs.
PDFAssist is a small application that add to the Windows FileExplorer some menus to do some quick work on PDF files.
The work can be done on single PDF and on multiple PDF at the same time.
This version do on PDF :
- Split the pages of PDF
- Compress (optimize) the PDF
- Merge PDF
- OCR PDF
- Print PDF
- Password Protect PDF
- Password UnProtect PDF
It uses Ghostscript and Poppler to do the work on PDF.
In order to manage multiple select of files within the Explorer, PDFAssist uses the "context-menu-launcher" that can be found at this url
https://github.com/zenden2k/context-menu-launcher
Ghostscript and Poppler are embedded in the ZIP
You will find in the code all the code to do call to Ghostscript, Poppler, etc...
Just run the executable the first time to create the needed registry keys.
As bonus, PDFAssist also creates a registry key to allow the automatic creation a folder with the current date
Enjoy the tool, and if you have comments, or ideas to enhance it, just post them here.
Well, I can't post it here, upload seemes to have a problem, but here is the link with all EXE : https://www.dropbox.com/s/r43bvoyfp7...ssist.zip?dl=1
And here only the sources PDFAssist Only src.zip
Thierry
Hey, when I select multiple pdfs, nothing happens. I installed the client correctly.
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May 25th, 2023, 09:52 AM
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Re: PDFAssist, tool adding context menu to Explorer to split, merge... PDF
I don't remember for multiple selection
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May 25th, 2023, 11:26 PM
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Re: PDFAssist, tool adding context menu to Explorer to split, merge... PDF
 Originally Posted by Thierry69
I don't remember for multiple selection
I think the context menu launcher isnt working. How do i install it?
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May 26th, 2023, 01:32 AM
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Re: PDFAssist, tool adding context menu to Explorer to split, merge... PDF
they are within the method Registry_CreateKeysPDFAssist
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